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...autobiography, A Goal in the Sky, due out this month, Baggio, 34, trashes many of the famous coaches he has encountered during his long career. "The Divine Ponytail" takes angry sideswipes at Renzo Ulivieri and Fabio Capello, but reserves special venom for Marcello Lippi, his tormentor at both Juventus and Inter Milan. Baggio claims Lippi tried to recruit him as a locker-room spy and then tried to destroy his career. Notably absent from this roll of dishonor is current Italy coach Giovanni ("Trap") Trapattoni, in whose hands rest Baggio's dreams of making his fourth World...
...TRANSFER AGREED. ZINEDINE ZIDANE, 29, French soccer hero, to Spain's Real Madrid for a reported $65 million; in Madrid. Besides his incredible performance for the national team in the 1998 World Cup, Zidane, or Zizou, has been playing with champion Italian football team Juventus since 1996. The superstar midfielder will be replaced by Lazio's Czech favorite Pavel Nedved. DIED. MORDECAI RICHLER, 70, author and screenwriter; in Montreal. Among his many achievements, the caustic Canadian had been twice short-listed for the Booker Prize and appointed to the Order of Canada. See Eulogy. DIED. HANNELORE KOHL, 68, wife...
...Soccer may have its own brand and teams, but it isn't global. If you're going to make a branding deal, you want to achieve the maximum global reach for your own brand, which in terms of soccer means that you have to partner with Manchester United or Juventus or one of a handful of other major European teams. Still, anything that raises the profile of soccer will be good for the game...
...last week came as no surprise. English soccer clubs have been banned from the Continent since 1985 by the Union of European Football Associations (U.E.F.A.) following one of the most horrific episodes in soccer history. Three years ago, Liverpool fans attacked Italian boosters during a game against Turin's Juventus club in Brussels. In the stampede to get out of the thugs' way, 39 people died and some 450 were injured...
English soccer teams were under virtual quarantine last week in the wake of the Brussels rampage by Liverpool fans that left 38 dead, most of them Italian followers of Juventus, a team from Turin. First the Union of European Football Associations banned all English clubs from playing in European championship tournaments for "an indefinite period." Then the International Football Federation excluded English professional teams from international competition. England's national team was exempted, however, enabling it to remain in World Cup competition. English soccer officials called the global ban excessive...